Samuel Richardson: Passion and PrudenceValerie Grosvenor Myer The novelists of the eighteenth century are enjoying a popular, as well as a learned, revival. Chief among them is Richardson. Here an international team of brilliant scholars and critics comes together to reconsider Richardson's achievement and to assess recent approaches. |
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... female . I believe Richardson would have agreed with this reading , and further- more that he would have enjoyed the continued agitation of female readers over his imaginary people , a follow - up to the adoring circles he commanded ...
... female . I believe Richardson would have agreed with this reading , and further- more that he would have enjoyed the continued agitation of female readers over his imaginary people , a follow - up to the adoring circles he commanded ...
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... female critics is , I believe , a mere jeu d'esprit . Warner ( p . 136 ) reminds us of the words of Lawrence : ' Boccaccio at his hottest seems to me less pornographical than Pamela or Clarissa Harlowe . ' Warner asks us : ' If the ...
... female critics is , I believe , a mere jeu d'esprit . Warner ( p . 136 ) reminds us of the words of Lawrence : ' Boccaccio at his hottest seems to me less pornographical than Pamela or Clarissa Harlowe . ' Warner asks us : ' If the ...
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... female friendship , Lovelace cynically insists that friendship is a ' mere word ' on the lips of women : a cork - bottomed shuttlecock , which they are fond of striking to and fro , to make one another glow in the frosty weather of a ...
... female friendship , Lovelace cynically insists that friendship is a ' mere word ' on the lips of women : a cork - bottomed shuttlecock , which they are fond of striking to and fro , to make one another glow in the frosty weather of a ...
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... female body , the book explores the dark and vicious places in the male psyche , as Morris Golden has pointed out . What a current of imaginative energy went into writing out and punishing those impulses towards domination and sexual ...
... female body , the book explores the dark and vicious places in the male psyche , as Morris Golden has pointed out . What a current of imaginative energy went into writing out and punishing those impulses towards domination and sexual ...
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Contents
Closetwork The Relationship between Physical and Psychological Spaces in Pamela | 21 |
CLARISSA | 39 |
Clarissa | 41 |
The Manmade World of Clarissa Harlowe and Robert Lovelace | 52 |
Subversive or Not? Anna Howes Function in Clarissa | 78 |
Triall by what is contrary Samuel Richardson and Christian Dialectic | 93 |
Anfractuous Ways | 114 |
Well Read in Shakespeare | 126 |
SIR CHARLES GRANDISON | 133 |
Sir Charles Grandison A Gauntlet Thrown Out | 135 |
THE SEXS CHAMPION | 145 |
Richardson and the Bluestockings | 147 |
Richardsons Influence on Jane Austen Some Notes on the Biographical and Critical Problems of an Influence | 165 |
Notes on Contributors | 177 |
Index | 179 |
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Page 17 - Why, sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted, that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story only as giving occasion to the sentiment.